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Riley's Terrace is in a row of six.
The terrace design was definitely inspired from our day-to-day lives. Not only from my family and
the three of us who live here but the site and the neighbourhood and everything about Redfern.
It was really an honest deconstruction and expression of how we live.
Connection to the outdoors was really important.
That was something we wanted to be very clear from the moment you stepped foot in through
the front door that you had this line of view from the front door to the back door
with a gorgeous sculptural tree centralised in the space.
I think when you're designing for yourself it gives you an opportunity to be innovative.
This terrace being three metres wide, we were very challenged. A big part of
it is to make sure that the circulation doesn't take up the majority of the site.
We had to come up with innovative ways to ensure that we kept the circulation to its minimum,
so the spiral staircase ticked all the boxes with reducing the amount of space
of where the staircase needed to be and maximised the landing space at the top.
Designing flexible spaces was key.
In the sitting room we've got some soft linen curtains that enable the space to be closed off
from the rest of the house or opened up to have a flow through from the kitchen to the sitting room.
The kitchen has a bench top island in the centre so that means that it's not
only used as a kitchen but a dining room as well that sits next to the courtyard.
The back new extension at the rear is a flexible space.
It's used as a living space with an entertainment unit and TV as
well as a studio so working from home it's a perfect spot to transform into a home studio.
The material palette we wanted to keep quite simple, the earthy concrete oxide floor
really earthed the spaces and connected the terrace from front to back.
Rather than cladding the structure we celebrated the materials,
like the stainless steel canopies outside all in their raw state.
In the kitchen we've got a very simple Absolute Matte Laminex product that
we've used on the cabinet fronts, the benchtop and the splashback,
and that just simplifies the pallet to sort of merging with the plastered walls
while giving over to the marble benchtop which is this beautiful Golden Spider.
The Golden Spider marble of the kitchen bench top
ties in with the custom double sink in the master suite bathroom.
And it's nice to sort of link through these materials
through the spaces so that there's a visual and material connection through the house.
Light in the project was incredibly important. After living in the property for the many years
prior we saw the effects it had on our mental health not having natural light.
Locating the courtyard in the centre of the house enables natural light
to all areas of the terrace. There were a lot of areas like the dining room and the kitchen
that didn't have any natural light and so re-looking at the typical terrace layout
we flipped it on its head and brought that courtyard to the centre of the project.
What I'm most proud of is how it's elevated our family life.
I think through the connection to the outdoors
the natural light our quality of life is definitely become a lot more enjoyable.
It's a lot more liveable and it's been fantastic living here with my family.
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